Tag Archives: Western world
The British government says it believes terrorists are in the final stages of planning attacks in Somalia and urged U.K. nationals to leave the country. The Foreign Office already advises against all travel to Somalia, including Somaliland, where it says … read more »
Posted in East Africa, News, Somali
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Tagged Consular assistance, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Government of the United Kingdom, IndepthAfrica, Mogadishu, Somalia, Somaliland, terrorism, Western world
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By Tapiwa Kapurura, zimeye.org This piece is meant to corroborate Professor George Ayittey’s recent contribution on the problems bedeviling Africa. My thesis excavates the point that Africa has everything to re-establish herself as a dignified and self-sustaining continent but has been … read more »
Posted in Article, Burkina Faso, Congo, DR Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Tagged African Affairs, African people, George Ayittey, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, United States, West, Western world, World Bank
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Babette Zoumara Contrary to the claims of critics, China’s partnership with Africa is based on sincere friendship, equality and mutual respect for the sovereignty through non-interference in domestic affairs and the offer of loans and grants The emergence of China … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Somali, South Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged China, China Investment Promotion Agency, China-Africa, Hu Jintao, Indepth Africa Magazine, Michal, South Africa, Western world
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By Messay Kebede What is wrong with Africa? Save for a few promising exceptions, why has Africa become the land where dictatorships, disrespect for elementary human rights, economic mismanagement, corruption, nepotism, ethnic confrontations, etc., proliferate and endure? This total and … read more »
Posted in Article, DR Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Advocacy Organizations, African people, Christianity, Human rights, Human Rights and Liberties, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, West, Western world
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While it’s always dangerous to offer general observations about an entire continent (there are sites fully dedicated to debunking this practice), regional analysis is a critical component of geopolitics, economics and foreign policy, and Africa is no exception. Today, there … read more »
Posted in Article, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged African Growth and Opportunity Act, African Union, China, George W. Bush, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Rosa Whitaker, United States, Western world
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Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian Finance Minister, has called on leaders in Africa to muster the political will to tackle the bane of political corruption infecting neophyte democracies on the continent. She acknowledged that there are problems with organising elections in … read more »
Posted in Ghana, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria, Nigerian, nigerian newspapers, Okonjo-Iweala, political corruption, Transparency International, Western world, World Bank
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By Stephen Hayes Stephen Hayes is president and CEO of the Corporate Council on Africa. Boko Haram, a major language and tribe of northern Nigeria, which loosely means “Western education is forbidden” in Hausa, has emerged as a major threat … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Boko Haram, bokoharam, Corporate Council on Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Mohammed Yusuf, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigerian news, Northern Nigeria, Pentagon, Western world
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Sudan and South Sudan on Thursday accused each other of incursions into disputed border areas, in a new setback to plans to secure their volatile boundary and resume cross-border oil flows. The accusations come a day after Sudan’s President Omar … read more »
Posted in East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged African Union, Bahr Al-Arab, IndepthAfrica, Omar al-Bashir, Salva Kiir Mayardit, SouthSudan, Sudan, United Nations, Western world
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By Belayneh Abate The massacre of elementary school children in the United States of America on December 14, 2012 is one of the horrifying news I ever heard in my life. We adults kill each other because we are filled … read more »
Posted in Article, Belayneh Abate, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Zimbabwe
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Tagged African people, George Ayittey, Hunger Project, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, sub-Saharan Africa, Susan Rice, United States, Western world
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by Teshome Debalke The West may have won the Cold War but, lost the battle for democracy and the free market on its own making; competing with authoritarian regime of China on economic development and praising small time tyrants as … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Libya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Authoritarianism, Capitalism, China, Cold War, Economic Development, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Western world
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Zelalem Eshete, Ph.D This is an independent voice of what I think are the silent Ethiopians. It is a voice lost in the wilderness of the political commotion. Granted, the voice is well known by all and yet seldom listened … read more »
By Bright Simons There is a tradition dating back at least 3 decades in the Western world that technical innovation on its own is rarely the make or break thing in the competitive advantage of a business. The Economist Paul … read more »
During the Vietnam War, Sweden was an independent country with a moral conscience, and Sweden gave sanctuary to US war protestors who refused the draft. Washington realized the cost to itself and purchased the Swedish government in order to prevent … read more »
Statement of OLF Provisional Council on the Dishonorable Death of Ethiopia’s Dictator “The death of a dictator is not the end of colonial oppression!” OLF Provisional Council In the long history of the Ethiopian empire, there has never been a … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Ethiopia, God, IndepthAfrica, Meles, Meles Zenawi, Ogaden, Oromo Liberation Front, Oromo people, Western world
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By the way did anyone know how Yodit Gudit or Esatiwa died and where she was buried? As myth based Ethiopian history hinted, Yodit Gudit who vandalized and destroyed Ethiopian heritages and values for forty years [842-882] EC.was drifted or … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis, Addis Ababa, Addis Abeban, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Western world
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By Stephen Lendman Economic/financial systems dependent on wars and predation eventually self-destruct. Western capitalism is no exception. Money power runs things. War profiteering is policy. Ordinary people have no say. Exploiting them for profit is prioritized. Divisions between rich and … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged Africa Countries, africa facts, africa for kids, africa karl wolf, africa lyrics, Africa news, africa news today, africa song, africa toto, african food, African History, Der Spiegel, European Central Bank, IndepthAfrica, Mario Draghi, Market trend, Paul Craig Roberts, Rasmus, reuters africa news, United States, Western world
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By Alula Alex Iyasu Rahm Emanuel , President Obama’s former Chief of Staff, was often heard saying, “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” Asked to explain what he meant, he said, “Crisis presents an opportunity to allow you … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Africa Countries, africa facts, africa for kids, africa karl wolf, africa lyrics, Africa news, africa news today, africa song, africa toto, african food, African History, Ethiopia, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, List of heads of government of Ethiopia, Meles, Meles latest news, Meles Zenawi, reuters africa news, Western world
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By Tibebe Samuel In a movie titled “Brave Heart”, a movie that Actor Mel Gibson played the leading role and directed, when the King was in his death bed, the princess begged for mercy to save the life of William … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, africa news today, BBC Africa, bbc africa news, East Africa, Ethiopia, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, Hailemariam Desalegne, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, map africa, map of africa, Medrek, Meles Zenawi, news, news 24, news in africa, North Africa, South Africa, south african news, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, TPLF, travel to africa, West Africa, Western world
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By Messay Kebede The trouble with tyranny and personalized power is that institutional mechanisms of power transfer do not work. In most cases, such mechanisms exist and are enshrined in written and exalted constitutions. Nonetheless, to the extent that tyranny … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, africa news today, BBC Africa, bbc africa news, East Africa, Ethiopia, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, Hailemariam Desalegne, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, map africa, map of africa, Medrek, Meles Zenawi, news, news 24, news in africa, North Africa, South Africa, south african news, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, TPLF, travel to africa, West Africa, Western world
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If we are to see sustainable development of the Zimbabwean economy, we need to strengthen the generation of income and wealth within the second economy I have had some rather remarkable responses to my last article dealing with my perspective … read more »
Posted in News, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged About Africa, Africa news, African History, African Maps, African Union, Albert Einstein, All Africa, breaking news, East Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthNigeria, Mbare Musika, Mugabe, Nigeria news, niheria newspapers, nothafrica, Robert Mugabe, West Africa, Western world, Zimbabwe
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Samir Amin These three Middle Eastern states should normally have been found in lists of today’s ‘emerging’ states. They have each attempted, in the past, to modernise as a response to the challenge from Europe. Egypt attempted this under Pacha … read more »
Posted in Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, africa news today, African news, Arab states of the Persian Gulf, BBC Africa, bbc africa news, China, East Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, Iran, latest africa news, map africa, map of africa, Middle East, news, news 24, news in africa, North Africa, Samir Amin, South Africa, south african news, South Korea, travel to africa, United States, West Africa, Western world
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The review below of Jamie Glazov’s book, United in Hate, is reprinted from Deborah Gyappong’s blog, deborahgyapong.blogspot.ca. Jamie Glazov’s book United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tryanny and Terror tries to answer the questions I and many others have … read more »
Maxwell V Madzikanga Hundred years down the line, how is the current Zimbabwe constitution -making process going to be judged by future generations? I see many scenarios and divergent camps emerging and innumerable focus groups deliberating painfully about a noble … read more »
Posted in Article, News, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged afria travel, Human rights, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, Lovemore Madhuku, map africa, map of africa, news, Rhodesian Front, Robert Mugabe, South Africa, travel to africa, Western world, Zanu-PF, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front
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A New World War for a New World Order? Jooneed Khan Confronted with a declining World Order it can no longer control, does the West want to re-assert its will through a new world war, which this time would be … read more »
Posted in Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, East Africa, History, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, Iran, map africa, map of africa, New World Order, news, North Africa, South Africa, travel to africa, united state, West, West Africa, Western world, World Order, World War III
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Above a cheap mobile phone shop in a chaotic street in north Delhi, there is a grimy apartment whose peeling walls are decorated with photographs of adoring mothers nursing their babies. The woman cooing at her child in the biggest … read more »
Mireille Fanon-Mendes-France How can these westerners be so cynical to oblige people they formerly colonised to use their democratic paradigm whilst their countries are grappling with the same model that hides xenophobia, unbridled racism, injustice and misery? Following the military … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali, News, West Africa
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Aminata Traoré, France, IndepthAfrica, List of heads of state of Mali, Mali, Military of Mali, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (France), Nigeria soccer news, West Africa, Western world
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Harare – Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe has wound up his 88th birthday celebrations by telling the youth to shun Western values, homosexuality and greed. Mugabe, hosting a lavish birthday bash in the eastern city of Mutare, says some African leaders … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, News, Southern Africa, Spotlight, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Harare, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Morgan Tsvangirai, Mugabe, Mutare, Robert Mugabe, Western culture, Western world, Zimbabwe
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By Jean-Paul Pougala Why is the Chinese economy thriving while that of the West is in crisis? The answer is of great relevance to Africans who have for decades embraced development models created in the boardrooms of Western capitals. Social … read more »
Posted in Article, Pan African News
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Tagged China, Chinese, Economy of the People's Republic of China, Government of the People's Republic of China, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, List of companies of the People's Republic of China, West, Western world
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by Teshome Debalke All the hoopla about development is a smoke screen; wasting time and resources from tackling the core problem of governance. The self-serving policy of the ruling regime is to commoditize poverty and institutionalized corruption. It has noting … read more »
Posted in Article, Pan African News
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Tagged Columbia University Press, Developmental State, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Joseph Stiglitz, Middle East, Western world, Woyane
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Most students no longer are taught their nation’s triumphs that would equip them to be knowledgeable citizens. Major universities have turned from instruction in the significance of Western Civilization to the “profound” influence of Lady Gaga, (real name: Stephanie Germanotta), … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged Barack Obama, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, lady gaga, National Association of Scholars, Occupy Wall Street, United States, Wall Street Journal, Western culture, Western world
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